Medical offices, health club project breaks ground in Menomonee Falls

A $14 million Menomonee Falls building to house Froedtert Health Inc. medical offices and a Wisconsin Athletic Club will have its groundbreaking Wednesday.

Minneapolis-based Ryan Cos. is developing the 90,000-square-foot building at the northwest corner of Pilgrim Road and an extension of Richfield Way.

The Wisconsin Athletic Club will occupy a one-story, 47,500 square-foot facility, to open in November. Froedert Health will open its offices in January, with 42,500 square feet on two floors.

The project, announced in August, is at the former Stolper/Western Industries Inc. factory.

The village of Menomonee Falls bought the 17-acre property for $600,000 from Western Industries, and spent $4.7 million on demolishing the former factory and doing environmental cleanup work.

That money will be repaid through property taxes generated by new development within a tax incremental financing district that includes the former factory site, which is west of Pilgrim Road and south of Highway 45.

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The council on Tuesday voted 10-5 to support the project, falling two votes short of the supermajority needed for approval. The zoning change needed 12 votes because a protest petition was signed by enough adjacent property owners, said Ald. Ashanti Hamilton, council president.

The opponents were Ald. Robert Bauman, whose district includes the site, along with aldermen Cavalier Johnson, Mark Borkowski, Jose Perez and Tony Zielinski.